Word: controller
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Under the city's rent control act, landlords can only increase rents with the approval of the city's rent board. Some landlords are given "special adjustments" for capital improvements to their buildings or other large expenses
Peter Stanton, executive director of Cambridge's Rent Control Board, predicted the increase, designed to cover increased property taxes, would be between 6 and 8 per cent assuming the property tax rate increased $35 per thousand...
Several developers within the last month have claimed that the cooperatives, in which tenants buy shares of the building, are exempt under state law from rent control and hence from the removal ordinance...
AFTER TWO WEEKS of allowing the so-called Billygate affair to flounder about in public out of control (much in the fashion of his administration), President Carter has finally taken steps to halt the onslaught of conflicting information and contradictory statements, not to mention cretinous comments from his brother, that have disheartened many already disenchanted Democrats and rallied rambunctious Republicans...
...ideal is a combination of socialism and free enterprise. The Sandinistas have nationalized banks, insurance companies and the fishing industry, and taken over some 2.5 million acres of the country's arable farm land from Somoza and his cronies, yet they have allowed the private sector to retain control of about 60% of the gross national product. Despite their uncertainty over the Sandinistas' aims, many businessmen express cautious optimism about the future. Says Jorge Salazar, president of the Agricultural Producers' Union: "The private sector that is not investing in Nicaragua left with Somoza...